The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 6
“That I will,” said Whittington, “with all my heart; I will work for you if you will let me.”
Who acts: Whittington, you · What happens: say, work, let · To what, where: Whittington · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Whittington, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 will | nsubj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 will | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 will | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 will | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Whittington | Whittington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 heart | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 heart | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 heart | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 heart | det:predet |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 heart | nmod:poss |
| 14 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Whittington | appos |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 work | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 work | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 work | aux |
| 18 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 work | obl |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 let | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 let | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 let | aux |
| 24 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 work | advcl |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 let | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Whittington | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | work in a quote | future | Whittington | for you | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | let a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | Whittington | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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